Deriving the Normal and Exponential Densities Using EDA Techniques

Authors
Griffin, Malcolm P. Smith, J. Terry Watts, Donald G.
Citation
P. Griffin, Malcolm et al., Deriving the Normal and Exponential Densities Using EDA Techniques, American statistician , 36(4), 1982, pp. 373-377
Journal title
American statistician → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
36
Issue
4
Year of publication
1982
Pages
373 - 377
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
This paper shows how students in an introductory statistics course discover mathematical expressions for the normal and exponential density functions.Techniques of exploratory data analysis (EDA) are applied to large data sets, the key idea being a straight-line fit to an appropriate reexpression of the histogram.